Friday night fortune cookie: Dorothy Gale says…
“What would you do with a brain if you had one?”
Year: 2011
watch it: “peekaboo with pet rats”
Just like playing it with a baby!
Lord of the Dance 3D movie review: see it if you’re Michael Flatley, skip it if you’re anyone else
The global phenomenon dance show is like what might happen if Albus Dumbledore used some powerful illegal magic to meld Busby Berkeley, pagan ritual, Cirque du Soleil, and Irish folk dancing… on ice!
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: What if The Who, um, regenerated into a different sort of band?
Fan artist rtofirefly retconned rock ‘n’ roll history back to the 1960s…
the timestamps are all off here…
I just noticed. The U.K. hasn’t switched to Daylight Savings Time yet, but my server is still acting like we’re five hours ahead of the East Coast of the U.S. Except we’re not: for another week, we’re only four hours ahead…
consultation with ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’
I was unable to get into a press screening of The Lincoln Lawyer, so I’m off to see the movie at a cinema this afternoon — because you know how much I love Matthew McConaughey. I will report on it asap afterward.
trailer break: ‘Hop’
I really want to hope that the Despicable Me folks have struck gold again, but I’m not feeling it.
question of the day: Is the rise of the geek a good thing for movies, or a bad thing? (Or is it too early to tell?)
Are the geeks directing Hollywood, or is Hollywood just learning how to better use the geeks?
Limitless (review)
It’s total utter complete fantasy of the best stripe, and just the kind that plugs into an ambitious but procrastinating brain. What if I could write my novel and make a million on the stock market and learn Japanese without even breaking a sweat? What else would I do? The what-if, as it turns out, is not all that, so much.
watch it: the Muppets’ “Danny Boy”
I friggin’ hate “Danny Boy,” but this might be my most favorite version of it ever…
